Another person who draws trash. I take requests. She/her
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Happy International Asexuality Day!!! 💜🤍🖤
how freakin’ cute is it that ted talks to paul about the “latte hotte” meaning the pretty 23-year-old mean girl, meanwhile paul saw the 5ft angry woman in her 30s and thought “yeah, i know exactly who you mean”
Void cat but space, with moon for eyes~
brb gotta to go splash water on my face in the mens bathroom and look haggardly at myself in the mirror
why must people critique actual play shows like they would a completed narrative. its like eating two bites of a meal and then critiquing the chef for their portion sizes
wearing wigs onstage SUCKS. you have to pin your hair up and wear a wig cap and you get all sweaty! it’s hard to go from wig cap hair to presentably styled hair! that’s part of the reason lauren wore the wig for emma! ik it’s not what most people wanted to see but in theatre that’s just how things go! starkid is at its core a theatre company, and you’re going to see things that reflect the urgency in theatre! shit happens fast. it’s extremely hard to go from wig hair to perfectly styled emma hair. maybe don’t shit on lauren or starkid for wearing a wig :|
So much color and tone variation just in the simple and humble domestic shorthair black kitty…
I don’t know how the timelines line up so maybe Tom wasn’t back yet but it’s funnier if he was
10 or 11 little ducks have been spotted crossing the dash board
monsters can go to the surface (twitter), but the night vale residents cannot/don't want to get out of town (tumblr)
Not to deny Cecil his dues but like does the poll really even matter if it didn't kill the Queen of England? If it's so hype why isn't Charles dead
A ghost stegosaurus visiting their newly discovered bones. They’re so happy you found them!
sorry if i was weird the other day i'm but a conduit for powers as terrible as they are strange
Bloodborne fan art by TripDancer
What's the matter? Lives flashing before your eyes?
Rosy Maple Moth Kitten - 2022
yeah, you could say I’m a bit popular with the ladies
a dude came into the library stoned out of his mind and was like, “do I need a library card to look at books?” And I said, “to take books home, yes. To look at them, no” and he looked so relieved. bro was staring at a fish encyclopedia for like an hour and then just left.
Hey, let's talk about anons like this, because I know some people haven't been in a position to see the patterns these play out in on broader scale and may indeed not spot the trap.
And it is a trap.
An ask like this has several purposes.
First, it uses social justice language in passive aggressive and manipulative ways to try to coerce a behavior. In this case, the desired behavior is usually for the recipent to participate in community shunning and/or harrassment. The language above is intended to put the recipient on the defensive where, in the haste to disassociate themself from the Bad Thing, they quickly disassociate themself from the bad person, often with no particular fact checking or evidence.
The message is also intended to create a sense of being surveilled and judged by an unknown amount of people with unknown amount of social power and an unknown amount of relevance to your life.
Notice that these asks are usually framed as if they are coming from a follower or potential follower, someone who is addressing you personally and who cares about your opinion and who your blog has an effect on. However this is usually.... very much not the case. If you've ever had the misfortune to watch a gossip campaign from like this from the outside, you will very quickly notice that messages like this get sent in mass batches to dozens and dozens of strangers. (You can often turn these up with a tumblr search, if you look.)
The sender does not know you and probably does not follow you. They have a person they don't like (possibly for their stated reason and possibly not), and they are going through the reblogs of a post from that blog and mass messaging *everyone* with a form letter. They will not see your response and they will probably never even see your blog again.
Which brings us to the second goal of whisper campaigns like this:
Notice that I blacked out the names above? That's because when the recipient answers anonymous asks like this, they provide a platform for the opinion on their blog. An anonymous message like this that gets posted doesn't just spread gossip and apply pressure to the recipient, it is spread to the recipient's entire community.
The *goal* is to get access to your community. The *goal* is to use you as a soapbox.
Is the information accurate? Did anyone check? Does the anon have an ulterior social motive? BIG SHRUG
If you go into the comments on one of these whisper campaigns you will see that *most people never bother to check.*
They assume good faith from a follower, they're off balance defending themselves, and they jump straight to conciliation.
It's a really, really effective form of social manipulation, and really really commonly misused.